After winning back the Manoharpur and dip side of Manoharpur blocks, state owned Odisha Power Generation Corporation (OPGC) aims to select the mine developer cum operator (MDO) soon for extracting coal from these mines.

West Bengal Mineral Trading and Development Corporation (WBMTDC), the state public sector undertaking for mining, is likelyto be the nodal body for the mining of coal blocks allocated to state power utilities Durgapur Projects (DPL) and West Bengal Power Development Corp (WBPDCL).

The government is set to issue show-cause notices to PSU energy companies IOC, BPCL, HPCL, GAIL (India) and GSPL, asking why the three inter-state pipeline projects they had bagged - two in 2010 and one in 2011- to build and operate the three gas pipelines with a combined length of 5,000-km under competitive bidding, with estimated investments of about Rs 20,000 crore, can´t be cancelled for lack of progress on the ground.

Despite gradual reduction over time, India still has a significant electricity demand and supply gap. Government of India (GoI) has been taking various positive steps to cater to the increasing demand of power in the country.

With a total of 2.70 lakh MW of renewable commitments from public and private developers, 62,100 MW of manufacturing commitment from public and private manufacturers, and 6,000 MW of EPC commitments from players.

A number of players in the balance of plant (BoP) sector, who had a phenomenal order intake in the past several years, are currently reeling under tremendous working capital stretch because of stuck inventory and huge receivables.

POWER TODAY, through this story, tried to highlight the status check of these two reforms and importantly, the issues that the officials of State Electricity Boards (SEBs) and the implementing agencies have shared with us.